The Line Tender

This book is great if you like crying and/or sharks! Reminiscent of [b:The Thing About Jellyfish 24396876 The Thing About Jellyfish Ali Benjamin https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1439121354l/24396876.SX50.jpg 43981451], in that it's another book about grief + aquatic life. It's set in a coastal town so idyllic that it took me awhile to pick up on the fact that it's historical fiction. It kinda seems like a place where kids would just ride their bikes around and not have smartphones for fun, not just because it was the 90s. It's subtle but well, there are some types of stories that are more adventurous when you can't just google “shark facts” but instead have to take a trip to Maine to visit your dead mother's former academic mentor in a nursing home to ask him shark facts.